Shelf-support



A. F. CARLIN. SHELF SUPPORT- APPUCATION FILED MAR- 6, 1919.

1,331,621 Patented Feb; 24, 1920.

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SHELF-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 24, 1920.

Application filed March 6, 1919. Serial No. 280,905.

To all whom it'mcy concern:

Be it known that I, ARVID F. CARnIN, a citizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the county of New York and or other support and to serve as a medium for showing or exhibiting articles of merchandise; and with this and other objects in View the invention consists in a device of the class specified, constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention described and claimed herein is an improvement on that shown and described in a prior patent granted to me November 12, 1918, and numbered 1,284:,235, and said invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shelf support involving my invention;

Fig. 2 a partial section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 3 a partial section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; V

Fig. 1a plan view of a look yoke which I employ;

Fig. 5 a perspective view showing a detail of the construction; and

Fig. 6 a partial section on the line 66 of Fig. 2.

In the practice of'my invention as shown in the drawing, I provide a shelf supporting device comprising two yoke-shaped end frame members 7, two lock yokes 8 and shelves 9. p

The end frame members 7 are made in the construction shown of strips of fiat metal but may be made of stiff wire, and said frame members which are yoke-shaped in form comprise raised top cross heads 10 having central suspending loops 11 and depending legs 12 split longitudinally near their upper and lo er ends as shown at 13 to form laterally directed keepers 14 between which are apertures 15.

The shelves 9 are identical in construction and comprise a bottom 16, having raised side and end wall members 17 which are shaped in form in cross section and which open downwardly and the outer walls 18 of which are deeper than the inner walls 19 thereof and extend below the bottom '16 as clearly shown, and the inner walls 19 of the end wall members 17 are cut out adjacent to the opposite end portions thereof to form apertures 20.

The lockyokes 8 comprises cross head portions 21 and and end arms 22, and in assembling the parts of my improved shelf support, the legs 12 of the end frame members 7 are passed through the apertures 20 inthe end walls 17 of both shelf members, and said shelf members are adjusted on said legs so that the apertures 15 and keepers 14 of said leg members will occupy the channels 23 in the end walls 17 of both of the shelf members, after which the arms 22 of the lock yokes 8, the cross head portions 21 of which are crossed at the back of the support are passed through the outer parts 18' of the back side walls 17 of the shelf members and through the channels 23 in the end walls 17 of said shelf members and through the apertures 15 in the legs 12 of the end frame members and this securely locks the separate parts of the support together in the'position shown in Fig. 1, and said parts may be disconnected for packing, shipping or other purposes whenever desired by reversing the a above described operation, or first removing the lock yokes S and detaching the shelf members from the leg portions of the end frame members.

By means of my improvement I provide a shelf support of the class described which is simple in construction, comparatively inexsacrificing its advantages, and it will also be understood that my invention is not limited to the number of shelves employed.

The lock yokes 8 or the arms 22 thereof are preferably provided. adjacent to their free ends with reduced portions 2% and the shelves 9, or the walls 19of theside walls 17 are provided adjacent to the front walls 17 of theshelves with inwardly directed spring tongues 25 stamped from the walls 19, and this construction is clearly shown in 2, 4 and 6 of the drawing. The spring tongues 25 are adapted to operate in connection with the reduced portions 24 on the arms 22 of the lock yokes 8 to retain said lock yokes in connection with the shelves. The frontand back walls 17 of .the shelves, or the bottom edge portions of the parts 18 thereo-f are also preferably bent upwardly as shownat 26 in.

Figs. 2,, 3: and 6 of the drawing. This construction serves to reinforce said walls and the parts 26 of the front walls 17 also serve to retain the front end portions .of the arms 22 of the lock yokes 8 in connection with the shelves 9, or to preventthe upward movement of the front end portions of the shelves E) on the corresponding legs 12 of the frame member 7, and this construction in combination with the passage of the lock yokes 8 through the walls 18 in the rear end portion 'of the shelves serves to retain .or look the separate parts of the shelf supports together.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A support of the class described comprising yoke-shaped end frame members, shelves adapted to be detachably mounted on the side portions of said frame members, and yoke-shaped lock devices for securing said shelves and said frame members together, .each of the side parts of the lock devices being passed through the .end portions of said shelves and through both of the side parts of the end frame members.

2. A support of the class described comprising yoke-shaped end frame members,

shelves adapted to be detach'ably mounted on the side portlons of said frame members,

and yoke-shaped lock devices for seen-ring I said-shelves and said frame members together, the side parts of the lock devices being passed through the end porti'ons'of shelves devices adapted to be passed on said frame said shelves and through the side parts of the end frame members, and the cross head portions of the lock devices being crossed at one side of the support.

3. A support of the class described, comprising yoke-shaped end frame members, shelve's adapted to be detachably mounted on the side portions of said frame members, said shelves being provided at their ends with raised wall portions which are U-sh'aped in cross section and form channels which open downwardly, and yoke-shaped lock devices for securing said shelves and said frame members together, the side portions of said lock devices being passed through said channels and through apertures in the .side portions of said framemembers.

A support of the class described comprising yoke-shaped end frame members, shelves adapted to be :detachably mounted on .thes-ide portions of said frame members,

.on the side portions of said frame members, 7 yoke-shaped lock devices for secur'mg said shelves and said frame members together, the arms .of said lock devices beingpassed through the opposite end p-ortions of the and the free ends of said lock devices being provided with reduced portions; and spring tongue members formed in said shelves and adapted to operate in connection with the reduced portions on said yokeshaped lock devices for securing the same in connection with the shelves.

6. A support of the class described comprising yokessh'aped end frame members, shelves adapted to be detachably mounted .on said frame members, and yoke-shaped lock devices adapted to be passed through said shelves and said frame members to secure the same together. v

7. A support of the class described comprising yoke-shaped end frame members, shelves adapted to be detachably mounted on said frame members, yoke-shaped lock through said shelves and said frame members to secure the same together, and means on said shelves adapted to operate in connection with said lock devices for retaining the same in connection with said shelves.

8,;A support of the class described comprising yoke-sl;iap.ed end frame -members, shelves adapted to be detachably mounted members, yoke-shaped lock devices adapted to be passed through said shelves and said frame members to secure the same together, means on said shelves adapted to operate in connection with said lock devices for retaining the same in connection with said shelves, and means for preventing vertical movement of the shelves on said frame members.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing Witnesses, this 10 5th day of March, 1919.

ARVID F. CARLIN.

lVitnesses:

C. E. MULREANY, H. E. THOMPSON. 

